Steve Hutson

Q: Where have you taught previous to CHS?

A: So 15 years ago I student taught at Glenridge Elementary School, took a job there the following year and then taught there for 14 years and now I’m making the jump here to CHS.

Q: What prompted you to make the jump to CHS?

A: Well, I really looked at it as an opportunity. Teaching at the same school for 14 years, I wouldn’t say I was getting stale, but I was looking for a new challenge. So when the door opened I had coached here for that duration of time so I knew the building fairly well and I knew what it was like to teach that age level. Granted, it was not an easy choice, but by talking to many different mentors in my life I decided it would be a good idea.

Q: What do you look forward to the most at CHS?

A: Well, first of all, I’m really looking forward to working with a lot of the kids that I had at Glenridge for six years. I’m super passionate about PE in general and I know that many of the kids experiences here at the high school haven’t been what they could be. I want kids to leave here passionate about fitness, passionate about being healthy, and being confident about that, so when they go out into the real world and they’re more independent, they can still tailor a workout program for themselves and make healthy decisions.

Q: Do you have a favorite moment from your teaching career?

A: Okay so I’m a first year teacher at Glenridge. I’m going to the teacher’s lounge to put a lean Hot Pocket in the microwave. Not a regular Hot Pocket, a lean Hot Pocket. I pop it in the microwave and it’s a minute and thirty to heat it up. I somehow put like an hour and thirty. So then I walk away to the cafeteria to get a spoon or something and get caught up in a conversation. Well no one else was in the staff room. This thing catches fire in there. Smoke is going everywhere, it smelled like burnt popcorn. Luckily someone walked by and smelled it and we threw the door and windows open and I was so thankful that the fire alarm didn’t go off. But this was a huge story around school; first year guy comes in and almost burns the building down with a Hot Pocket.